1) What this means?

: "so expected to receive a letter"

St. Plato and St. Fedor were waiting for a letter from Vasily, with such a desire as the earth expects rain.
2) What this means?: "Epiphanius, the beloved and the most faithful of our son"
Epiphanius was a faithful spiritual son of St. Fedor.
3) What this means?: "humble and very loving your piety, and we left the sorrow of the our heart and got great joy."
St. Plato and St. Fedor call themselves humble and loving: your piety, i.e. Vasily himself. They left their sorrow that there had been a delay in
receiving his letter.
4) What this means?: "rejoice and comprehend among the persecution and in the prisons"
comprehend = stay in the good of the soul
5) What this means?: "We unworthy, but we wish to achieve a general use of us, and free us, although we are from among the latter (64).
Plato and Theodore consider their imprisonment a glory for themselves, but such glory exceeds their dignity, and therefore they consider
themselves unworthy of this glory. Also, in order to achieve the common good of the Church, they desire release from imprisonment. They
consider themselves among the last people who are worthy of such glory.
5. And it would be useful to be what our goal and desire consists."
Such release from imprisonment would be useful in order to condemn these people, who gathered the synod against the Gospel of Christ.
6) What this means?: "For everywhere should, as Saint Gregory Theologian say: prefer to what is useful for himself, to what is useful for
many"
What is useful to others should be preferred to what is useful for himself.
7) What this means?: "It is necessary that the synod of this throne of the apostles (as in antiquity and from the beginning) condemned these
people, who gathered the synod against the Gospel of Christ."
It is necessary that the synod of the Roman Church, as the throne of the apostles, condemn these people.
8) What this means?: "Also against these people who proclaimed anathema against those, who support the Gospel, and not adopting neither
adultery, nor the marriage of adulterees or this adulterial synod. So that they, who support the Gospel, were condemned for the iconomy,
allegedly allowed by the "saints", according to the adulteurs, calling such lawless people as "saints"."
Supporters of the gospel were condemned, allegedly for the sake of economy. This economy was allegedly allowed by the "saints".
9) What this means?: "If this condemnation will not be done, then we are requested, finally, of your strong prayers, a strong union of love,
powerful answers to console us, with weak spirit, and we asking to strengthen us, the weak, in which, of course, you will not refuse us, holy,
beloved and always respected our fathers."
If such a condemnation of these people does not happen, then St. Plato and St. Fedor ask for the prayers of this Basil.